I've done engineering work on the site (new storage tanks). This site is a perfect example of how technical neglect or ignorance (the early days of nuclear) combined with entrenched bureaucracy and underfunding of the cleanup project can land you in a giant mess that's difficult (at best) to resolve. Hanford is and was an accident waiting to happen, and it could happen at literally any time, contaminating beyond any reasonable ability to cleanup the entire Columbia river basin when the big accident finally happens. And with current funding and environmental attitudes of the current regime, it's not going to get better.
If it is used as a password (IE: no other authenticating properties), it's a password. The logical construction of the token or whatever is rather irrelevant, as is the physical properties. If I can obtain the hash, file, image, whatever the system uses and present it to the authentication service, then how the electronic representation is produced is irrelevant, and you also can't change the source physical properties that generate the digital representation. In short, if someone obtains that representation and is able to utilize it, the user is toast, with little or no opportunity for the user or admin to do anything about it.
One day they'll discover the folly of using biometrics for authentication or authorization, but then it will be too late. Let's all tie everything to a password that we can never change right? Great idea! Sigh
a huge proportion of the truck market is local travel and terminal movement tractors. An electric makes perfect sense for those roles. Not all trucking is long haul.
If the public perceives that they are getting an appropriate value for their money, the absolute percent value of taxes is rather irrelevant. It's how the funds are utilized and the end results (or lack thereof) that feed the perception of too high. If they produce perceived value for the money, then much fewer people would think that the taxes are excessive.
No, they won't sell the histories, that's proprietary valuable data. They will sell services based on the results of those histories to third parties though, not to mention the data now being subject to subpoena for legal issues.
I started my career running NT on Alpha's, great runners, good performance and reliability. However, near zero support from the third party ISVs or add on hardware manufacturers (third party NIC and RAID cards for instance). Unless there is strong market uptake of servers using ARM, I foresee much the same path as NT on Alpha did.
you have to worry about performance per watt, not just raw watts. If you get lower transactions (or whatever) per watt with ARM then you've solved nothing and perhaps made things worse. Previous generation ARM chips couldn't match Intel on performance per watt, perhaps the current and future gen ARM chips can change that? I haven't seen that they have succeeded yet though.
Intel has been an ARM licensee for over a decade, they can produce them whenever they desire to, and DID produce a lot of ARM chips in the pre smartphone PDA days.
that's cool, we'll do the same, en masse, the entire department kicking you in the balls, when your PC gets compromised because you refused to install updates.
I completely understand the issue with Winphone market share, it is what it is though. AC asked why MS hasn't done the iMessage thing with Skype, when they have in fact done so. Not being aware of it doesn't make it untrue.
When I use my winphone, I get the SMS functionality that you describe. I'm not defending the platform otherwise, in fact I'm likely switching to a Pixel next month for exactly the market share reasons you refer to.
apparently you have never used a wireless charging dock in the car, a work vehicle that I have to enter and exit from a LOT. Don't discount all use cases because you aren't one of them.
All news aggregators/repackagers have this problem, Flipboard is no different. Their only value to me (was a long term user, dropped them about a year ago) was in repackaging the news into a format more easily consumed on the tablet/phone. Once they started shelling out to the browser for something like half of all articles in the service they became useless and irrelevant. This statement is an example of a dying company trying to prove their relevance.
Just a gimmick, (like adult health trackers) to get you into their profiling system as early as possible. We'll have those targeted ads ready for you the first day the child uses the net!
Windows 10 Phone (fwiw, yeah, yeah, yeah go ahead and snipe) prompts each time upon connection by default whether to use USB data or not. I wouldn't trust it against a hacked/co-opted USB port though. Firmware level exploits and all....
sounds like you've decoded the entire legal basis for NSA spying! You can't prove you were affected so you do not have standing, therefore you can't sue, therefore the practice continues.
don't get me wrong, I think it's good that the FTC is doing this. But those restrictive terms in typical EULAs should be illegal, and likely many are if actually challenged in court, but consumers need redress for defective products, FTC fining them and pressuring for "better next time" is good, but does nothing for the people that bought the defective gear.
Not sure if it would hold off the FTC, but the EULA of these products likely give D-Link full immunity from civil lawsuits like most consumer level software or equipment.
Given the obviously fairly tall odds of getting busted, I wonder how the legitimate risks you describe (no disagreement) scale statistically against the combined health effects of alchohol consumption? IE: even with the legal risks, is pot still safer?
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I've done engineering work on the site (new storage tanks). This site is a perfect example of how technical neglect or ignorance (the early days of nuclear) combined with entrenched bureaucracy and underfunding of the cleanup project can land you in a giant mess that's difficult (at best) to resolve. Hanford is and was an accident waiting to happen, and it could happen at literally any time, contaminating beyond any reasonable ability to cleanup the entire Columbia river basin when the big accident finally happens. And with current funding and environmental attitudes of the current regime, it's not going to get better.
If it is used as a password (IE: no other authenticating properties), it's a password. The logical construction of the token or whatever is rather irrelevant, as is the physical properties. If I can obtain the hash, file, image, whatever the system uses and present it to the authentication service, then how the electronic representation is produced is irrelevant, and you also can't change the source physical properties that generate the digital representation. In short, if someone obtains that representation and is able to utilize it, the user is toast, with little or no opportunity for the user or admin to do anything about it.
One day they'll discover the folly of using biometrics for authentication or authorization, but then it will be too late. Let's all tie everything to a password that we can never change right? Great idea! Sigh
a huge proportion of the truck market is local travel and terminal movement tractors. An electric makes perfect sense for those roles. Not all trucking is long haul.
If the public perceives that they are getting an appropriate value for their money, the absolute percent value of taxes is rather irrelevant. It's how the funds are utilized and the end results (or lack thereof) that feed the perception of too high. If they produce perceived value for the money, then much fewer people would think that the taxes are excessive.
No, they won't sell the histories, that's proprietary valuable data. They will sell services based on the results of those histories to third parties though, not to mention the data now being subject to subpoena for legal issues.
I started my career running NT on Alpha's, great runners, good performance and reliability. However, near zero support from the third party ISVs or add on hardware manufacturers (third party NIC and RAID cards for instance). Unless there is strong market uptake of servers using ARM, I foresee much the same path as NT on Alpha did.
you have to worry about performance per watt, not just raw watts. If you get lower transactions (or whatever) per watt with ARM then you've solved nothing and perhaps made things worse. Previous generation ARM chips couldn't match Intel on performance per watt, perhaps the current and future gen ARM chips can change that? I haven't seen that they have succeeded yet though.
Intel has been an ARM licensee for over a decade, they can produce them whenever they desire to, and DID produce a lot of ARM chips in the pre smartphone PDA days.
guess you missed the part in TFA where it says that we need to start the conversation, not proposing the tax as the only possible solution.
that's cool, we'll do the same, en masse, the entire department kicking you in the balls, when your PC gets compromised because you refused to install updates.
I completely understand the issue with Winphone market share, it is what it is though. AC asked why MS hasn't done the iMessage thing with Skype, when they have in fact done so. Not being aware of it doesn't make it untrue. When I use my winphone, I get the SMS functionality that you describe. I'm not defending the platform otherwise, in fact I'm likely switching to a Pixel next month for exactly the market share reasons you refer to.
they've done exactly that on Windows 10 phone
apparently you have never used a wireless charging dock in the car, a work vehicle that I have to enter and exit from a LOT. Don't discount all use cases because you aren't one of them.
All news aggregators/repackagers have this problem, Flipboard is no different. Their only value to me (was a long term user, dropped them about a year ago) was in repackaging the news into a format more easily consumed on the tablet/phone. Once they started shelling out to the browser for something like half of all articles in the service they became useless and irrelevant. This statement is an example of a dying company trying to prove their relevance.
Just a gimmick, (like adult health trackers) to get you into their profiling system as early as possible. We'll have those targeted ads ready for you the first day the child uses the net!
Windows 10 Phone (fwiw, yeah, yeah, yeah go ahead and snipe) prompts each time upon connection by default whether to use USB data or not. I wouldn't trust it against a hacked/co-opted USB port though. Firmware level exploits and all....
sounds like you've decoded the entire legal basis for NSA spying! You can't prove you were affected so you do not have standing, therefore you can't sue, therefore the practice continues.
and how much legal runaround, attorney fees, etc. you are willing to deal with. SIgh
don't get me wrong, I think it's good that the FTC is doing this. But those restrictive terms in typical EULAs should be illegal, and likely many are if actually challenged in court, but consumers need redress for defective products, FTC fining them and pressuring for "better next time" is good, but does nothing for the people that bought the defective gear.
Not sure if it would hold off the FTC, but the EULA of these products likely give D-Link full immunity from civil lawsuits like most consumer level software or equipment.
but, but, but...I thought the "thousand eyes" on open source would prevent that? hahahahaha
Just what we've all been clamoring for in our technical standards right?
Given the obviously fairly tall odds of getting busted, I wonder how the legitimate risks you describe (no disagreement) scale statistically against the combined health effects of alchohol consumption? IE: even with the legal risks, is pot still safer?
Every intoxicant has risks, some choose the one with lower risks. Cannabis is safer than alchohol in nearly every possible measure of safety.